COOK THE WORLD

Somalia is to Africa what Lowestoft is to Great Britain: the easternmost point on the land. Somalia is situated in that part of Africa...

When you look for The Gambia on a map of West Africa, you might wonder whether you’re looking at a political map, or a river basin map....

One night last week, I woke up at 4am and decided I was far too hungry for sleeping. I went downstairs, nailed a bowl of Bran Flakes, and...

Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and tiny little Djibouti make up the region known as the Horn of Africa. Djibouti is a 20 mile stone’s throw...

Rwanda is a little land-locked country in the African Rift Valley and is affectionately known as the “land of a thousand hills”, the...

Back in 2019 when I first had the idea for Jen Cooks The World, one of Mrs S’s first responses was “what on earth are you going to make...

!!Honesty alert!! I picked Turkey out of the saucepan after Bulgaria. However, four out of the last ten countries have been on the Med,...

Tunisia is one of the 22 countries with a Mediterranean coastline and the key ingredients in its cuisine reflect this location and...

Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, as it is officially known, sits on the south coast of West Africa between Liberia and Ghana. Côte d'Ivoire is...

Do-do-do come on and eat in Congo… Haha! Sorry not sorry for that! The Republic of the Congo is not to be confused with its neighbour,...

I’m so excited to be away from the Pacific Ocean! I haven’t been to Africa since country number 18 (Egypt)! One of the ten...

Egypt is dry. In 2014, out of 177 countries where measurements were recorded, Egypt had the lowest rainfall of just...

Seychelles is arguably the country in the world with the dreamiest-sounding name (Bahamas is also a contender)… …and its geographical...

Overview Emmanuel Adebayor. I don’t even know where Togo is. Next to Ghana. Togo is the poorest country featured in my blog to date....

It is my friend and landlady (and more recently, colleague and fellow prisoner), Rhiannon’s, lucky day! At the start of this project I...

“Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up a railway instead of a beanstalk, and at the end there is a wonderful new world...Uganda is truly...

Well here we are again, on a small, Portuguese-speaking island to the west of mainland Africa. It’s quite nice to dream of sunshine...

OK, well I know that I wrote every country on a piece of paper only a few months ago but when this one came out of the pan it felt like...

Well I’m ploughing through southern Africa aren’t I! Again, I’ve found reading up about this country super-interesting, but I’ll keep it...

Considering I wrote the countries out and added them to the pan in alphabetical order and dropped them all on the floor it’s quite...